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Our awards are back –
and you’re invited
Director of the Year Awards
June 8 at the
Edinburgh International
Conference Centre
We’re set for a night to remember in
June when we play host to the 2023
IoD Scotland Director of the Year
Awards.
In what will be our first in-person
awards evening since 2019, the IoD
Director of the Year awards are a
chance to shine a deserving spotlight
on those business leaders who have
really inspired others and rose to the
challenges we’ve all faced in 2022.
Who has turned their business’s
fortunes around? Who has bucked
the trend by ignoring contraction and
going for growth? Who has led their
public sector or third sector
organisation through a maelstrom of
obstacles and still delivered for its
stakeholders and clients?
These are just some of the qualities
our judges will be looking for next
year at the awards.
As usual we’ll be awarding Director
of the Year Awards in a host of
sectors, including Large and Small
Business, Public and Third Sectors,
Young Director and Non Executive
Directors of the Year.
Nominations will be open from
early January so keep an eye on the
IoD Scotland website for more
details. Entry and nomination will be
via a simple form to be accessed
through the website, and must be
completed by March 17 for judging to
start.
The awards evening is on
Thursday, June 8 at the Edinurgh
International Conference Centre.
Tickets will go on sale in early
January too, so book in early and join
us for a night to remember as we
celebrate Scotland’s finest business
leaders.
As IoD Scotland Nations Director
Catherine McWilliam said in her
leadership interview in this issue: “I
can’t wait for our Director of the Year
Awards in June. We’re going to get a
big room for members to sit down
and reflect on what they’ve achieved
– despite all the challenges they have
faced. It will be a chance to say,
collectively, ‘we got through this, we
survived the storm.’”
• The following is an indicative list
of the awards categories likely to
feature in the 2023 awards, though it
is not exhaustive.
National
– Agility & Resilience
– Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
– Family Business
– Innovation
– Sustainability
– Large Business
– SME Business
– Non-Executive
– Public Sector
– International
– Young
– Third Sector
Regional
– Aberdeen & Grampian
– Central Scotland
– Edinburgh & Lothians
– Fife & Tayside
– Glasgow & West of Scotland
– Highlands & Islands
– South of Scotland.
For more details on the awards, see
the IoD website at www.iod.com
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Our winners from 2019 – the last
time we were able to hold the
awards in person, with the events of
2020 and 2021 held virtually because
of the pandemic
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